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A Model TedTalk with Cameron Russell

By kaymontano On December 16, 2012 · 3 Comments · In Ideas Worth Sharing, TEDTalks, Video

Most of us have an opinion or assumption about models and it’s most likely going to be based on their physicality alone. Many women want to be them, many women are jealous of them or judge them, some even have a ‘favourite’ one but however omnipresent models are, the nature of the job is to [...]

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Liya Kebede. A model advocate.

By kaymontano On April 29, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Ideas Worth Sharing, Video

Born and raised in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Liya Kebede was ‘discovered‘ as a model by a film director while studying at The French Lycee. Once she’d completed her studies, she moved to Paris to begin her modelling career and soon moved to NY where she has lived ever since. She has since appeared on the [...]

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Leymah Gbowee talks on Women in the World

By kaymontano On April 28, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Ideas Worth Sharing, Video

Leymah Gbowee is one sassy woman. She is also the funniest and most loveable (unless you’re a despotic male with a machete and a uniform in which case you should be very afraid) feminist activist I’ve ever come across. I LOVE her. Give this lady a TV show now! Ted on why you should listen [...]

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Leymah Gbowee: Unlock the intelligence, passion, greatness of girls

By kaymontano On April 28, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Ideas Worth Sharing, TEDTalks

Single mother of 4, Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Liberian peace activist, Gbowee led a women’s movement that was pivotal in ending the Second Liberian Civil War in 2003, and now speaks on behalf of women and girls around the world. Here on her Ted Talk, she tells of her own life’s transformation, and of the [...]

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Ken Robinson ‘Changing Education Paradigms’

By kaymontano On April 28, 2012 · 4 Comments · In Ideas Worth Sharing, TEDTalks

Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we’re educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence. Why you should listen to him: Why don’t we get the best out of people? Sir Ken Robinson argues that it’s because we’ve been educated [...]

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Brene Brown discusses the after-effects of her TedTalk on vulnerability..

By kaymontano On April 28, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Ideas Worth Sharing, TEDTalks

Brené Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work. She has spent the past ten years studying vulnerability, courage, authenticity, and shame. She spent the first five years of her decade-long study focusing on shame and empathy, and is now using that work to explore a concept that [...]

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Brene Brown ‘The Power of Vulnerability’

By kaymontano On April 27, 2012 · 1 Comment · In Ideas Worth Sharing, TEDTalks

Dr Brene Brown, Ph.D, LMSW is a research professor at the University of Houston. Her topics include courage, authenticity, vulnerability and shame. I was blown away by this Tedtalk she gave and sent it to all of my closest friends.

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Anita Bhagwanda’s beauty columns for Black+Asian skin

By kaymontano On April 25, 2012 · 1 Comment · In Ideas Worth Sharing, Lifestyle

Anita Bhagwanda is part of the new generation of female writers who make beauty a more diverse, accepting and interesting place to be. She has written for several national magazines and papers covering music and beauty. Her profile in The Guardian jokes; ‘she probably could have done more, but she spent her time looking for [...]

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Italian Vogue Editor Franca Sozzani. ‘My Harvard Speech’

By kaymontano On April 4, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Ideas Worth Sharing

Not content with making her magazine a mega-spreaded, creative vessel for fashion photographers, stylists, hairdressers, make-up artists and models to express themselves in a less obviously commercial way AND devoting a whole issue to black women (with British-born, Ghanaian fashion editor Edward Enninful at the helm), Franca is perhaps the only visually-influential fashion editor that [...]

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Everything you wanted to know about the placenta but were afraid to ask..

By kaymontano On April 1, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Ideas Worth Sharing, Lifestyle

By Rachel Boardman M.R.N.I. Naturopathic Iridologist and Herbalist. When I read the January Jones article sent to me by Kay (link below,), I was intrigued. The actress had done an interview with People magazine and mentioned that she’s had her placenta ‘encapsulated’ into supplements. I’ve heard frying up ones placenta with an onion and [...]

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